Prof. Dr. HİKMET ŞELLİ AYBAR

Hikmet Ş. Aybar, after completing his BS study at Istanbul University in 1978 and his MS study at Technical University of Istanbul in 1982, received a Turkish government scholarship to study for PhD degree in the USA. After completing his MS study at Ohio State University in 1987, he worked as a research associate in the Department of Chemistry at Ohio State University for one year. He received his PhD degree in 1992 from the Nuclear Engineering Program at the Ohio State University, and he started his career as a senior R&D engineer at the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority in Ankara. In 1995, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eastern Mediterranean University as Assistant Professor, he became Associate Professor in 1996, and he became Professor in 2004. He served as Vice Chair of the department from 1995 to 1997. He served as Vice Dean of Engineering Faculty between 2008-2014. In 2014, he joined Department of Mechanical Engineering at Bozok University. He served as Vice Rector from 2015 till 2018.

He joined Cyprus Aydın University as Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Architecture in October 2024. His research interests are computational heat and fluid flow, nuclear and fossil-fuel fired power generation, and thermal system design, solar heating and solar desalination, magnetic material and applications (e.g., magnetic cooling, magnetic heat engine), nanofluid.